Creative Language Resources

I am 19, and I just currently designed my first website for my grandmother and with lots of reading of websites and tutorials i managed to learn how to do CSS. This website was also was my first paid website...........mind you there was a family discount, of course.

My grandma, and all my family members say that it is a good website and that it is great, but knowning how families and friends work, i just wanted to see what other people think about the website. Also i wanted to know people's opinion on the technical aspects of the site, like whether or not the CSS is correct, or if there is anything i should do that could improve the site

http://www.creativelanguageresources.com.au

(Yes, i am from australia)
Thanks

Not bad for a first website. I really don't like comic sans, though, and I think you'll find most people agree with me. Using arial or verdana would make this site much cleaner looking. The header is really low quality as well. Don't compress it so much and it will look better Also, the links should have some type of change when the mouse moves over them.

As for the code, here are some problems:

• Remove this: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
• Validate your XHTML
• When you do that, you'll be able to validate your CSS
• You need an <h1> tag near the top of your document. You cannot skip headers (ie going from <h2> to <h4>).
• When you link to the home page, you should use <a href="/"> instead of linking to index.htm.

I think that about covers it. Congrats on using CSS. You might find this article I wrote interesting. It'll help you write it faster and you'll also find it easier to maintain your style sheets.

CSS Shorthand

Well I agree with your family... it's very nice for your first site!

I agree with Ryan, change the comic sans font and it will look even that much more professional!

You should be proud!

hey thanks guys

I agree with the comic sans i can change it, it would make the site look better, i think i might tone down the red or change the color.

Valid point about the <h1> i thought i had it, but nice job on picking that up, and i will make sure to validate the XHTML and CSS with W3C

and I never thought about just using "/" instead of "index.htm"

thanks for your advice.......i think i will do some more reading and learning on CSS so that i can learn how to make the site look more professional, maybe even get a more professional photo of my grandma

Thank You

The reason why you should link to / instead of index.htm is because search engines treat both of them as different pages. Having duplicate pages on a website could turn out badly if engines think you're just trying to make it look like you're beefing up the content. It's not really something you'd have to worry about, but better safe than sorry

That makes sense........diffinately better to be safe than sorry

(especially with Google and their very strict/anal retentive rules)

Thanks

Excellent site, IMO.

I think you should change the mail link to a graphic or a form of some kind. Spam robots will find your address and you'll get lots of junk email.

Or better yet, check out this article I wrote for concealing email addresses

Protecting Email Addressing in HTML Using JavaScript

Nice site - well done!!

i have made some slight changes to the site, some things i haven't done yet but that is a work in progress.......for example i am trying to learn some more css so that the navigation, you should be able to click anywhere instead of directly on the text.

Tell me what you think please
http://www.creativelanguageresources.com.au/

nativejam

Something like this:

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li a {
    width: 150px;
    height: 25px;
    display: block;
}

thanks for that piece of code Ryan

Cheers
nativejam

No problem